FreeTDS Development Group

[James K. Lowden <jklowden AT speakeasy.org>]

On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 12:04:59 +0100 (CET) "Björn Jonsson" 
<bjorn-jonsson AT telia.com> wrote:
> I am trying to build a 4GL development system called IDEO with freetds 
> libsybdb.a
> I Get the following symbols as undefined:
> dbsetlbool, dbcmdrow, dbcount, dbnumcompute, dbopen, dbrows, dbsetlname 
> and dbdead.

Björn, 

Välkommen til FreeTDS.

dbsetlbool      Never heard of it, where is it documented?
dbcmdrow        uppercase
dbcount         uppercase
dbnumcompute    FreeTDS doesn't handle compute rows
dbopen          a macro in FreeTDS's include/sybdb.h
dbrows          uppercase
dbsetlname      uppercase
dbdead          uppercase

It looks like IDEO was written for Microsoft's version of db-lib, or perhaps 
an older flavor of Sybase's?  I see the modern Sybase docs use uppercase for 
these commands, which is what FreeTDS is doing, too.  But I'm used to dbdead, 
not DBDEAD.  

No one is working on these.  It's not hard, but it's not happening, either.  

I think your IDEO build is going to need our include files, and it looks like 
you'll have to patch them with macros that change the case.  You'll need to 
define dbnumcompute as always returning zero; I have no idea about 
dbsetlbool.  

That *might* be all you need to do.  I that within your skills?  

Regards, 

--jkl